Writing more about my Clients will serve its own purpose, instead of going on writing about my Services. You will read the story of my Career in this series. I am going to write about the wonderful people that I worked with as well as working with, all these years. I thank them for having given me an opportunity to provide my service to them and thereby, helping me to learn new things.

Let me start with my Client Patrick Schwerdtfeger. He is an author and an international speaker. I started working with him since 2009. He was a well known Speaker on “Social Media Marketing” to the small business people in Bay Area. He has a meetup group, to which he keep giving tips and ideas on Social Media Marketing Strategies. This meetup group is one of the 50 largest entrepreneur groups in the US.

It gives me a wonderful feeling to think about the way we started working together to build his career. The first job that was assigned to me, was to build his Twitter followers. The first step was to find out the potential followers by using the keywords that would fit into his profession and then follow them. Here are few of the keywords that we used, to find out the people to follow: real estate, finance, agent,financial, invest,stock, market, insurance etc.

Patrick wanted to follow only people who are certain to follow him back. Take a look at the followers of Patrick Schwerdtfeger. And if you want to know how exactly we did it, then you need to read more by clicking here.

If you think that I can help you in increasing your Twitter followers, then please do write to me.

Patrick wrote to me, why he wanted to follow those who are certain to follow him back. And I quote ,” You will find that the heavy users are more likely to follow as many people as are following them. That’s how they got to be so big. ”

As I mentioned in my earlier blog I was instructed to find out the potential followers from Twellow.com, using those appropriate keywords and follow only those persons, who has 80% of following/followers ratio. Which means they are the regular users of Twitter and they do follow whoever follows them. But Twitter don’t allow users to keep following people on the go.

After the first 2000, you can only follow 10% more than the number of your followers. So you can follow up to 3,300 when you have 3,000 followers – as an example.

To keep up the good work of building Twitter followers, the balancing act of bulk unfollow had to be done to maintain 10% of following/followers ratio. This is one way we followed to start building the followers in Twitter.

The other ways that could be followed to increase the number of followers in Twitter are by

There are more ways that can be followed to get found and followed by the Tweeple. And we , myself and Patrick, followed those ways, too, to build his followers in his Twitter account. I am going to write more about the other ways to build your Twitter followers in my next post.

If you think that I can help you in increasing your Twitter followers, then please do write to me.

PS sit in front of you to take down your instructions, which could easily be passed on, via email. Your PS needs your office space for 8 hours even if there is no work for a whole part of the day. PS uses your telephone connection that you hire for 30days whereas it is used only to make and receive few calls a day. Your PS enjoy the employee benefits that could easily be avoided by you.

VA gives you the comfort of sending your instructions right from your living room or from a park whenever you find time. VA doesn’t need your office space to sit and work. VA doesn’t need your telephone to make or receive calls. VA doesn’t have to be paid any other benefits than the actual payment for the work that is done for you.

Who would need a VA?

An entrepreneur who runs a start up venture, who can neither afford to hire an office space nor hire a full time employee. Any individual who think that hiring a full time employee and having a rented office space is not necessary for his business, right now. Some one whose business demands to travel more but to be in touch with the clients too often. Some one who would need a person to answer calls on his behalf when he travels. Some one who feels that he is wasting his time by making cold calls to his customers. Some one who wouldn’t want to spend too much time on Internet, searching for the contact details of those businesses that could be of any interest to him. Some one who wishes to have more than two hands and more than 24hrs a day.

Wikipedia says, “Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other networks”

“Uma is an incredibly detailed-oriented individual who provides outstanding results. We hired Uma for research, and she always seemed to have an accurate understanding of the value of her results which were always very precise. Most importantly, Uma provided great communication, so there was never a time when we weren’t on the same page after corresponding via email.”

Like this:

I have always enjoyed my clients’ presence around me, irrespective of the recession.

And I am sure, every one of us, The VAs, would love that. I love working with my Clients, even during their tough times. There has always been a co-ordinated effort to meet the targets fixed by my clients.

It is very important to keep our Clients reminded them of our Services. Sending mails to them regularly enquiring about their achievements and updating them with the latest news about our work, always help us, the Virtual Assistants. Make it a point to keep a Mailing List of your existing as well as your future Clients. Writing to them regularly, will make them to get back to you whenever they are in need of any help or assitance.

If you are yet to have a proper Mailing List, then do it NOW. The recession is going to get over and things are looking up. We are going to get more Clients, hence more work. So make it QUICK.

The Market Place hasn’t gone down. So keep yourself updated. When you need my help in creating a Mailing List,do write to me. I shall be glad to help you. I shall do the Internet Research for you to prepare the Mailing List.